medically eventful
I feel extra sorry for waitstaff (and other on-your-feet-all-day) jobs now, because my calves are killing me, and while I did some walking, I don't think it was that much more than typical--about 3 miles (5 km). It was the other being on my feet that made the difference I think.
Well I have good news and bad news re: Pippa's eyesight. The good news is that she doesn't yet need surgery. She is using the bifocals more, so her deviation has decreased. However, her prescription has changed slightly which means a new effing lens. I'm hoping since it's just one eye it won't be too bad, but I'm guessing it'll still be at least $150 (it's a specialty bifocal). The doctor even thought she might be regaining binocular vision, which is very exciting. We see the doctor again in two months.
The bad news is that the doctor checked out Mary-Alice briefly and was concerned enough to request we get her an appointment too. Sigh. Well at least we were able to schedule both appointments for the same day so we can just do one marathon eye appointment day.
Toddler eye appointments are interesting. They're very involved because you can't just ask a toddler "what are you seeing?" and expect a full and accurate answer. The doctors have to use all kinds of gadgets and tricks to get them to look at the right thing. While for adults, we read letters off a chart, with a toddler, they use pictures. They let the kids decide what the shapes are, and some of Pippa's descriptions are really funny. There's a drawing that looks like a little bird, which she calls a penguin, but the funniest one is the drawing of a hand with spread fingers. Pippa calls that a "high five". Maybe I already wrote about that on here? Whatever, it's still funny.
I already knew I needed new glasses, but this brought it home because I couldn't identify some of the shapes that Pippa could. I have a new prescription (as of several months ago), I just haven't had the extra funds in hand to get the actual glasses/contacts. Originally I wanted to wait until our insurance paid us back for my acupuncture treatments, which now they have, but now I want to make sure we can afford to pay whatever it is for Pippa's glasses and maybe Mary-Alice's glasses in two months. Maybe I should ask the optician how much it would be just to put new lenses in these glasses. I really want to buy contact lenses though.
The reason these glasses are so bad is because they're my old, old back-up pair. Pippa broke my more recent pair about a year ago.
Then we also had to deal with Mary-Alice's first round of vaccinations. She did better with it than Pippa did, which surprised me. She's tended to be more sensitive than Pippa was to stuff like getting scratched or bumped, cold and heat, uncomfortable clothing, etc, so I thought it was going to be awful, but while she definitely was not pleased with the shot, she handled it differently than Pippa did. Infant!Pippa was like "NOTHING IS OKAY. NOTHING WILL EVER BE OKAY AGAIN" in her screaming, whereas Mary-Alice is like "I AM REALLY MAD AT YOU, I AM GOING TO NURSE, BUT I AM STILL MAD. OK TAKING A BREAK TO TELL YOU I'M MAD AGAIN. OK NURSING AGAIN NOW. STILL A BIT GRUMPY. Ok over it." And she was fine! It was interesting.
Her growth check-up confirmed that she is indeed a very big girl, 99th percentile for height, the same as her sister, and 97th for weight and head circumference, way more than her sister--IIRC she was like 75th and only 50th for head. Mary-Alice got her enormous head from my dad's side of the family. Thanks dad.
Well I have good news and bad news re: Pippa's eyesight. The good news is that she doesn't yet need surgery. She is using the bifocals more, so her deviation has decreased. However, her prescription has changed slightly which means a new effing lens. I'm hoping since it's just one eye it won't be too bad, but I'm guessing it'll still be at least $150 (it's a specialty bifocal). The doctor even thought she might be regaining binocular vision, which is very exciting. We see the doctor again in two months.
The bad news is that the doctor checked out Mary-Alice briefly and was concerned enough to request we get her an appointment too. Sigh. Well at least we were able to schedule both appointments for the same day so we can just do one marathon eye appointment day.
Toddler eye appointments are interesting. They're very involved because you can't just ask a toddler "what are you seeing?" and expect a full and accurate answer. The doctors have to use all kinds of gadgets and tricks to get them to look at the right thing. While for adults, we read letters off a chart, with a toddler, they use pictures. They let the kids decide what the shapes are, and some of Pippa's descriptions are really funny. There's a drawing that looks like a little bird, which she calls a penguin, but the funniest one is the drawing of a hand with spread fingers. Pippa calls that a "high five". Maybe I already wrote about that on here? Whatever, it's still funny.
I already knew I needed new glasses, but this brought it home because I couldn't identify some of the shapes that Pippa could. I have a new prescription (as of several months ago), I just haven't had the extra funds in hand to get the actual glasses/contacts. Originally I wanted to wait until our insurance paid us back for my acupuncture treatments, which now they have, but now I want to make sure we can afford to pay whatever it is for Pippa's glasses and maybe Mary-Alice's glasses in two months. Maybe I should ask the optician how much it would be just to put new lenses in these glasses. I really want to buy contact lenses though.
The reason these glasses are so bad is because they're my old, old back-up pair. Pippa broke my more recent pair about a year ago.
Then we also had to deal with Mary-Alice's first round of vaccinations. She did better with it than Pippa did, which surprised me. She's tended to be more sensitive than Pippa was to stuff like getting scratched or bumped, cold and heat, uncomfortable clothing, etc, so I thought it was going to be awful, but while she definitely was not pleased with the shot, she handled it differently than Pippa did. Infant!Pippa was like "NOTHING IS OKAY. NOTHING WILL EVER BE OKAY AGAIN" in her screaming, whereas Mary-Alice is like "I AM REALLY MAD AT YOU, I AM GOING TO NURSE, BUT I AM STILL MAD. OK TAKING A BREAK TO TELL YOU I'M MAD AGAIN. OK NURSING AGAIN NOW. STILL A BIT GRUMPY. Ok over it." And she was fine! It was interesting.
Her growth check-up confirmed that she is indeed a very big girl, 99th percentile for height, the same as her sister, and 97th for weight and head circumference, way more than her sister--IIRC she was like 75th and only 50th for head. Mary-Alice got her enormous head from my dad's side of the family. Thanks dad.